Chicken pox

[jode19]

Chicken pox is doing it's rounds in my sons class at school, he's 6. Any tips/advice for when/if he gets it??? Thankyou!

[FrodisCapering]

You could pay to get him vaccinated before he gets it.
Two jabs, six weeks apart. They do them in many Boots and Superdrug stores.

[jode19]

@FrodisCapering

You could pay to get him vaccinated before he gets it.
Two jabs, six weeks apart. They do them in many Boots and Superdrug stores.

I can't afford it unfortunately.

[Samarie123]

No need to vaccinate against Chicken pox. Your child will get natural immunity from it. Just get the calomine lotion ready and warm baths. Between my 3 , one got it very mildly, one quite bad and the other inbetween.

[CoodleMoodle]

We're currently going through this. DS(3) had it first, he barely suffered at all (he was off preschool for a week, so I was the one who suffered!). DD(8) caught it from him and she's got it much worse, but we're on day 6 and doesn't feel unwell anymore, but still too spotty for school.

Eurax cream and liquid Piriton are the things that have helped the most. We also got a calamine/aqueous cream from Superdrug, massive tub of aqueous cream and a tube of Virasoothe. The Eurax was/is the best though. We did a porridge bath each but it didn't help DD very much.

[FrodisCapering]

@Samarie123 I have to disagree with you. Some people get extremely ill from chicken pox. Also, having the vaccine means no shingles later in life.

My father in law is a retired doctor, but from another country where it is part of the regular schedule of vaccinations. He was really surprised it isn't given here as a matter of course.